Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nutton, Vivian.

Series:

Sciences of antiquity

Series of antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Ancient.

Physicians--History.

Physicians.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

Available for the first time in paperback, this first large-scale, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to late Antiquity. Vivian Nutton pays particular attention to the life and work of doctors in the communities, links between medicine and magic, and examines the different approaches to medicine across the ancient world. With many texts made accessible for the first time, and providing new evidence, this broad exploration challenges usual perspectives, and proves an invaluable resource for students of both classics and the history of medicine.

Contents:

Sources and Scope

Patterns of disease

Before Hippocrates

Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus, and the defining of medicine

Hippocratic theories

Hippocratic practices

Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece

From Plato to Praxagoras

Alexandria, anatomy, and experimentation

Hellenistic medicine

Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine

The Consequences of Empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman Army

The rise of Methodism

Humoral alternatives

The life and career of Galen

Galenic medicine

All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men

Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire

Medicine in the later Roman Empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-464) and indexes.

ISBN:

0415086116

OCLC:

53038721